CFP- IEEE Networks Magazine: on Scalability in Communication Networks

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

Call For Papers
IEEE Network Magazine

Topic: Scalability in Communication Networks
 

Guest Editor:
Amitabh Mishra
Bradley Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
2040H Torgersen Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061
+1 (540) 231-9689
mishra@vt.edu
 

Scope:

     Scalability has always been an important issue in communication
architectures. Network equipment vendors as well as service providers
face the scalability challenge on a day-to-day basis. The former need to
design systems, which are scalable at the application level to be
provisioned by the latter in service.  For a network system, scalability
is dependent on the hardware architecture, application software
architecture, underlying operating system, size of the data, and its
communication protocols. Due to the heterogeneity of not only network
equipment and network-based services but also service providers
themselves, the scalability challenges have become even more critical.
In those cases, where the Internet has become the main communications
infrastructure; the scalability issues are further aggravated. Large
networks such as the Internet have some fundamental scalable limitations
when it comes to managing individual traffic flows. While Internet
protocols such as RSVP are believed to be non-scalable, the scalability
of MPLS, IntServ and DiffServ have yet to be studied.
 
      This special issue of IEEE Network seeks to present a series of
state-of-the-art papers on scalability issues in communication networks.
In particular, we are interested in tutorial and survey articles on, but
not limited to, the following set of topics:
 
     1. Scalability in Switching Systems
     2. Scalability in Communications Services
     3. Scalable Network Architectures
     4. Network Protocols and Scalability
     5. Scalable Signaling Architectures
     6. Admission Control & Scalability
     7. QoS and Scalability
     8. Scalability in Wireless Networks
     9. Scalability issues in the Internet & other IP based networks
     10. Scalability issues in Routing
     11. Scalability of Network and Service Provisioning
     12. Scalability of Service Assurance
     13. Scalability of Network Management
 
Manuscript Submission:
 
    This special issue will only consider electronic submissions in
postscript, PDF, or MS Word formats.  To submit a paper for
consideration, authors need to contact the guest editor via email. The
paper should be included as an email attachment, or authors may provide
a URL from where the file can be downloaded.
 
Please indicate which author is to serve as the primary correspondence
contact. For each author please list affiliation, mailing address,
phone/fax numbers, and email address.

Additional information including "Guidelines for Authors" is available
at the IEEE Network Website:
http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/techcom/ntwrk/authors.html

Schedule:
Submission Deadline: November 15, 2001
Acceptance Notification: February 15, 2002
Final Manuscript Due: April 1, 2002
Publication of Special Issue: July/August, 2002
 

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Amitabh Mishra
Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
 
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE/Management research 
group on networks at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 
New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Professor Dr Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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